This past week, I had the honor of attending the DC Ad Club's annual Addy awards show where I picked up two awards for work done last year. The Anthony Bourdain Cuba poster and Travel Channel Summer Detour NYC subway wrap both brought home silver!
Since last updating this blog, I added a couple of pieces to the portfolio that I designed earlier this year, the Travel Channel Summer Detour NYC subway wrap and the Man v. Food Nation Press Kit. I believe the subway wrap is now off the subway, but was fortunate to have one of my co-workers film the inside of a car for those who couldn't experience it in person. You can check out the video here:
If you hadn't noticed, I updated the Sapitot portfolio with a couple of new pieces last week. First up is Mike Grutka's charming new album, Ria. This is the 3rd CD design in as many releases I've done for Mike. The challenge for this project was bringing the large amount of photos that Mike provided me of himself and locations in and around his home of Saratoga Springs, NY into a cohesive design. I used a moire pattern and bright, bold colors to give all the photos a common theme and thread throughout the digipack and 8 page booklet.
Wow, long time no blog. I was doing pretty well with this, up until the past 6 months. Will catch everyone up to speed eventually. Anyway, the reason for this post...Harlem Shakes recently shot a very clever video for their crazy catchy song "Strictly Game". If you've ever watched a pirated song on YouTube, you'll totally get the parody concept. Quite genius and hilarious too. Keep your eyes peeled at around the 2 minute mark for a Sapitot contribution to the video. Came as a total surprise when I watched it for the first time.
The Harlem Shakes approached me about doing a new tour poster for their upcoming tour with Tokyo Police Club and I was more than happy to oblige. Drawing themes from their upcoming first LP artwork, Technicolor Health, this is the end product. The print is 18x24, with 4 screens. Two versions are being printed of this design, one for sale while they are with TPC and one for when they head out on their own for a few weeks.
For the month of February, Sapitot is being featured in a poll for "site of the month" at Unique CSS. Head over to uniquecss.com and help vote us to the top!
Sapitot has recently been getting some link love from the world's CSS aggregate sites. Below are links to sites that are featuring Sapitot. Thought I would return the favor and give them a link back. Check out these great sources of inspiration. luvthatdesign.com - Sapitot is a featured site! my3w.org cssburst.com foliostars.net
Welcome to the new and improved Sapitot web site. After two and a half years of service, it was time to put the last version out to pasture with the other old Sapitots. Take a look around the cleaner navigation, updated content and a first for this site, a blog! My plan is to keep this site much fresher than past sites, so please check back often and give me a poke if I start to slack.
I couldn't go without saying a HUGE thank you to friend and programming wizard Brian Schilt for all his help in developing the site.
